Descent into the Underdark

Ishzu raises his hand and asks Oliver."What if there is another source of alcohol closer, then we are to you when we mix the flask? What if more than one of us gets lost at a time? " He stores the vials carefully in his bag. "I cannot drink the flask. Would you want me to just dump it out?"

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Jan 23, 2024 11:42 pm

OOC:

@Smiley - When Ishzu talks to one person, does only that person hear him?

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Oliver

Jan 23, 2024 11:47 pm

"When the distress is over, I reckon Grin would gladly drink it."

"And yeah, those are good questions. If there's a dwarf drinking an ale between me and you, this won't work. But I'll take my chances in the underdark. I'm not expecting to find a tavern in the middle of nowhere. I guess many more things than just this could go wrong. We'll improvise when that happens."

Ishzu

Smiley

Jan 24, 2024 12:09 am

Ishzu nods. "What is our plan now? Some sunlight would be nice. Would you rather deal with Spiders or a Slime Cube? Both have passages that lead to the surface."

OOC:

Assume everyone can hear him speak, unless otherwise stated.

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WhiteDwarf

Jan 24, 2024 1:10 am

Ander stands proudly in his chic new armor!
I am game for either excision, my crystalline friend! This is a good group, just happy I’m a part of it!

Grinfletch

Jan 24, 2024 1:23 am

OOC:

Sounds good, thanks Ish!

Right-o, spiders, slimes, I’m game for either. Maybe we can bribe the spiders with one of the darkmantle corpses? Actually, I’m quite hungry too. The sooner we get up and eat, the sooner we can come back and do… whatever it was we were planning on doing?

Oh, and Sir Ander, your new armor looks pretty on you… actually, are those web-like patterns in the armor? Very nice! Maybe it’s a sign we should go through the spiders, aye?

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Psybermagi

Jan 24, 2024 1:42 am

Oliver quickly discovers that the brew produced by the keg is rather special and qualifies both as an alcoholic drink and a potions. As soon as it is distilled it looses all magic and produced no alcohol. Interested in the proceeding Valpip offers a wine skin to the expermiments and you soon have 5 sets of small metal flasks. Valpip takes one and mixxes it back together and declars it a horible process for distilling the flavor but works well enough to keep a mouthfull of oddly flavord water and half that much alcolhol.

OOC:

I gave you the options earlier. Let me know your plans when you are ready

Date&Time(Gama): 1@12:30

Jan 24, 2024 2:48 am

OOC:

Though I love the link with web-like patterns in Ander's armor, I think the slime cube would be more sensible, as we have no area of effect, which they really warned we should have

Jan 24, 2024 2:52 am

Psybermagi says:

Valpip takes one and mixxes it back together and declars it a horible process for distilling the flavor but works well enough to keep a mouthfull of oddly flavord water and half that much alcolhol.

OOC:

Yup, fits the bill. That's what happens when an alchemist enters brewer territory.

Knight

daryen

Jan 24, 2024 3:05 am

Knight

The Knight says, "Don't alchemists have alchemical bombs? Or alchemical fire?"

OOC:

I'm glad someone remembered. 🙂 Also, while Ander is the only one who can hear his knight, I thought this would be a more fun way to ask the question.

Jan 24, 2024 3:27 am

OOC:

lol, love the knight! I seem to recall something about peaceful spiders? Somewhere down here? Was it a city of them? Also, Ander’s armor lets him walk through webs and gives him bonuses against poison, which was one reason we might have an edge there. But I’m happy to go the slime route too.

Jan 24, 2024 3:29 am

OOC:

oh!! Can I use the Dungeoneer trait to help?! It’s such a niche trait and I kind of regret grabbing it, but maybe it’s useful this once?

[ +- ] Dungeoneer

Maybe I can get some useful GM guidance from a good roll on which direction we should take (slime vs spiders).

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Rolls

Knowledge about spiders/caves - (3d6)

(165) = 12

daryen

Jan 24, 2024 4:18 am

Arkmenos Inactive for 1 months

OOC:

OK, I can't justify filtering this through the Knight ...

The peaceful spiders where one of the stops through the teleporter platform. If you want more information on the teleporter platform, ask in the general topic and we'll just assume we briefly covered it in more detail that time in the tavern.

The spiders in this cave system are relatively normal spiders. I assume they are about the size of your hand or something. So big in real life, but tiny in a fantasy setting. And this cave has lots and lots and lots and lots of them. So, if you can carpet bomb them, it might be worth the shot. But you aren't going to kill them one at a time.

Jan 24, 2024 4:35 am

OOC:

sorry guys busy day. that's the most discussion i've ever seen about the loot. I still haven't been able to read 6 pages of posts. Think I still have three to go.

Ealdwig doesn't need or want anything other than coin. Oh, and the dice he pocketed. So whatever you work out is fine. He'll sell whatever he is provided. Just let me know what the total is. I assume it was figured out somewhere back there in the posts.

When I can catch up I'll post.

To go back a little in time:
Yeah, hi, I'm Ealdwig. Nice to meet you all.

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Jan 24, 2024 5:25 am

OOC:

All good @Arkmenos, yeah, it was a long loot discussion. Take your time to catch up. For your loot you could pick one of these two:

Ealdwig 1: bone dice+chalice+magic armor [12.5+25+100gp] +90gp in coin [total worth: 227.5gp]

(The magic armor lets you reroll one evade roll per combat, which is very nice since you're a duende)

Ealdwig 2: bone dice+chalice [12.5+25] +190gp in coin [total worth: 227.5gp]

daryen

Jan 24, 2024 5:31 am

Arkmenos Inactive for 1 months

OOC:

@arkmenos, also check the Manor thread as that is where Ealdwig is now.

I figured you were going to take the cash, so you've got the bone dice, chalice, and 190gp in coin. So you now have a decent chunk of cash to your name. (You only got two dice, not all four, because Skeeve took the other two. 🙂) You'll probably wanna keep that chalice for when we party at the Manor!

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Jan 24, 2024 5:37 am

daryen says:

OOC:

@Arkmenos, you're the last to finish. Your choices are:

bone dice+chalice+magic armor [12.5+25+100gp] + 90gp in coin [total worth: 227.5gp]

Or

bone dice+chalice [12.5+25gp] + 190gp in coin [total worth: 227.5gp]

(You can swap out 50gp for the bracelet, too if you want.)

OOC:

I can do the first option if the armor doesn't hinder movement in any way. As an acrobat I'll need to move freely. I don't know how to add it to my inventory.

I finally caught up. Wow that was a lot.

Ealdwig listens intensely to Ishzu's tales while partaking in Blornvid's magical ale. Then, mouth agape, he listens to Oliver present his ale theory. Amazing! How did you come up with that Oliver?

To Grin, smiling widely it was great meeting you. I haven't seen one of our kind in a while. Hopefully, we'll meet again in the future. Good luck in the underdark. Stay safe, my friend.

Before heading to the Manor, Ealdwig stops by the little magic shop and picks out some armor, hoping it'll help keep him alive a little longer.

Guard

Psybermagi

Jan 24, 2024 7:12 am

Guard

One of the guards hears you talking about the gelatinous cube and informs you in passin Best be careful if you try and hunt that thing. They are resistant to many forms of attacks. Swords, arows, mace. All just dissolve when they strike it. You best have a good plan.

[ +- ] Recap of the cube tunnel

You find a large pile of bones before a narrow passage that is oddly smooth and inclines upwards. The bones are piled in a small depression at the base of the incline and look to be the remains of many creatures, several of which are humanoid. Looking at the odd stone walls and floor you are unable to tell if it is man made or perhaps a lava tube? Odd as there have been no other smoothed tunnels but if it was made then someone spent an odd amount of time smoothing it out though not flattening all of the surfaces.

The party sends a spirit and flickering magical light source up the tunnel followed by the party after 50 feet. The tunnel goes up for over 80 feet when suddenly they get an alarm from the spirit who then promptly dissipated as it had been attacked by something. Ät the same time the spell is disrupted growing dimmer.

Looking up ahead all that can be seen is an odd distortion to the light. The light looks as if looking at it though an old thick glass window that has started to warp and distort. These distortions are changing and moving around then the light disappears. Glancing back they can not tell what causes it but a slight hissing sound precedes something vague, like a curtain or thin mist?, in the tunnel moving closer. After picking up the pace and reaching the cave at the base of the tunnel. The tunnel is to the north and they stood in the depression at the mouth/bottom of the tunnel.

Standing aside to watch the tunnel they hear the noise just before a strange mass exits the tunnel and stops in the depression. It has no distinct form or color and is nearly transparent. Whatever it is begins withdrawing back up the tunnel. Before it gets far the party attacks, spouting a thin stream of water at it that cuts into the mass, cutting a chunk off that falls into the depression. The translucent mass, a slime or ooze of some sort?, It's slowly making its way back up the tunnel. The section cut off by the water stream has filled the bottom of the depression with a brackish fluid. It slowly continues and up the tunnel but it came down much faster.

After watching for a while they realize that the ooze is very acidic, Likely the 'burning' feeling of the familiar referred to being enveloped and eaten as this is a common ooze tactic and one quite frightening considering the size of the one in the tunnel.

Oliver

Jan 24, 2024 9:47 am